The Galaxy Zoo Mergers Team

Galaxy interaction guy and developer for Galaxy Zoo: Mergers. His old, smelly Fortran codes were the basis for the Merger applet. John is also using Zoo data in a misguided effort to help machines become better scientists.

The developer for Galaxy Zoo: Mergers applet. In addition to his full time job and family, Anthony is working on his Ph.D. in Computational Sciences and Informatics with the Mergers project under the supervision of John Wallin.

Works on figuring out what makes galaxies look the way they do: how they formed and why they change as they get older and move to new cosmic locations. Somehow manages to still do some science between helping to run Galaxy Zoo and entertaining Archie, his one-year old son.

Galaxy interaction guy and member of the Galaxy Zoo:Mergers team. Kirk is working on ways ways to analyze large data sets in astronomy, including the Large Synoptic Survey, using both machine learning and Citizen Science.